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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The county is included in the Western circuit: the Lent assizes are held at Salisbury, and the summer assizes at Devizes; the quarter-sessions are held at Devizes …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… or 'justices', commissioned from 1220 to try possessory assizes, at first always sat at Wilton. After 1226 other … burgesses should be quit of external pleas, but that the assizes should be held at Wilton and not elsewhere. The first … trials occurred. The matter was re-opened at the Salisbury assizes of 1356, when the arguments of 1337 were …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… ed. G. D. Ramsay (1954) xi Wilts. Quarter Sessions and Assizes, 1736, ed. J. P. M. Fowle (1955) xii Collectanea, ed. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… sovereigns, with various other remains of antiquity. The assizes and general quarter-sessions for the county are held …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… it to be done without delay fourteen days after the assizes. 43 In March they again wrote to the commissioners … 1651, p. 11. Ibid. p. 57. The Royal Commission for the Assizes has been executed in the Hall for nearly twenty years …